496th Fighter Training Group
Group
Activated as 496th Fighter Training Group on 11 December 1943 at Greencastle by VIII Composite Command.
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Squadron
Group
Activated as 496th Fighter Training Group on 11 December 1943 at Greencastle by VIII Composite Command.
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Station | Location | Date |
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Based | Goxhill |
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Fighter Pilot 1055 single engine/Squadron Commander | 20th Fighter Group
Assigned to 24th PG in Philippines evacuated to Australia. Went to Java with the 17th PS and then 7th FS 49thFG in Australia and New Guinea completed tour and was credited with downing 4 Japanese Zeros.
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Military | Major | Fighter pilot | 364th Fighter Group
Assigned to 384FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) fighter bomber mission to Verdun, France. Hit by flak, strafing a train and factories, shut down one flaming engine, 2nd engine then caught fire, baled out very low, chute partly deployed. A/C...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 20th Fighter Group
Killed in Action (KIA) crashed near Zoven in P-51 44-13713
AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster, DFC w/ Oak Leaf Cluster
2 FW190, 1 Do217, 1/2 JU52
Military | Second Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot, Pilot | 20th Fighter Group
Crash landed near Harrington, Northamptonshire after losing the second engine on the return from an escort mission after losing the first engine on 4 Mar 1944 in P-38J 42-67736. RTD.
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Military | Captain | Fighter Pilot | 496th Fighter Training Group
Assigned to 544FS, 478FG USAAF. Transferred to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) escort to Merseburg in P-51D 'Spunktown' 44-13804, hit by flak in coolant system, strafing a train between Osnabrook and Hannover, heading for base with a...
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 496th Fighter Training Group
On 11 Jun 44 crashed near Estrees in P-38 43-28388 and Evaded. In Sept. of same year killed in a high speed dive but not during combat.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 495th Fighter Training Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 496th Fighter Training Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Amiens on 16 Jun 44 in P-38 43-28423.
Military | Second Lieutenant | 20th Fighter Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 20th Fighter Group
AM w/ 6 Oak Leaf Cluster, DFC
2 Ju88
P-38 Lightning
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 554FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF.
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 335FS, 4FG 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 554FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF.
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 368FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 554FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred War Weary to 352FS, 353FG, 8AF USAAF as a hack A/C.
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 554FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 352FS, 353FG, 8AF USAAF.
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred war weary to 554FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF.
P-38 Lightning
Assigned to 554FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF. A/C abandoned River Humber Nr Sunk Island 28-Apr-44. Cat 5 damage. Pilot 1st Lt Earl R Fryer baled out, OK.
P-38 Lightning
Assigned to 79FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 554FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred War Weary to 552FTS, 495FTG, 8AF USAAF.
P-38 Lightning
Assigned to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. Personal aircraft of Capt Jerry H Ayers. Transferred to 554FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF. Written Off Cat 5 damage, Landing Accident Goxhill/Sta 345 Pilot Lt Alexander F Cilli 554FTS, 496FTG, 5-Aug-44.
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 436FS, 479FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 555FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred war weary to 554FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF.
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Date | Contributor | Update |
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27 September 2014 18:42:50 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980) |